Glad the reboot movies have led to some enjoyable rewatches!
I also can't help comparing reboot Uhura to the women of Babyon 5 or, now that I'm watching it, to ToS Uhura.
To me, the high point of female Trek characters (or any Trek character really) was DS9's Kira Nerys. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see the likes of her again.
The first reboot movie felt regressive to me in terms of representation. They could have brought in Chapel and Rand, but didn't. And every woman other than Uhura in the movie was there to either 1) be ogled by Kirk in her underwear or 2) be someone's mother. TOS, and the TOS movies, often managed to have women who were scientists, or judges, or religious leaders, or outright leaders of their planets. It felt weird to me to have the reboot be less inclusive than the 40+ year old source material.
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Date: 2016-08-19 03:36 am (UTC)I also can't help comparing reboot Uhura to the women of Babyon 5 or, now that I'm watching it, to ToS Uhura.
To me, the high point of female Trek characters (or any Trek character really) was DS9's Kira Nerys. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see the likes of her again.
The first reboot movie felt regressive to me in terms of representation. They could have brought in Chapel and Rand, but didn't. And every woman other than Uhura in the movie was there to either 1) be ogled by Kirk in her underwear or 2) be someone's mother. TOS, and the TOS movies, often managed to have women who were scientists, or judges, or religious leaders, or outright leaders of their planets. It felt weird to me to have the reboot be less inclusive than the 40+ year old source material.